
I love it when Americans succeed on the world’s stage, especially after a comeback. Team USA has shown us this repeatedly at the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina in hockey, figure skating and more.
Americans watched Feb. 22 as the U.S. men’s hockey team won an epic Olympic gold, not only against longtime rival Canada, but 46 years to the exact day after they bested the Soviet Union on the way to Olympic gold, the “Miracle on Ice.”
New Zealand MP Chloe Swarbrick told Parliament that English is oppressive and is being “beaten into people” as lawmakers debated a bill that would formally recognize English as an official language of New Zealand. Swarbrick, co-leader of the Green Party, pushed back against legislation introduced this week with support stemming from a coalition agreement between the National Party and New Zealand First.
X owner Elon Musk is appealing the 120 million euro fine that was imposed on his company under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
In a post on Friday, X’s Global Government Affairs team said it filed an appeal with the General Court of the European Union challenging the roughly $140 million penalty that was imposed last December for allegedly violating the DSA.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the Mexican drug lord commonly known as “El Mencho” and leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), has been killed in a military operation in Mexico.
The CJNG has become a large-scale criminal enterprise that rivals other major gangs such as the Sinaloa cartel. According to a report by Reuters, the Mexican government has been ramping up pressure on cartels after threats made by the Trump administration that the US could intervene to address cartel violence.
